29 JUNE 1907, page 31

M Usi C.

COMEDY IN MUSIC. MUCH that concerns the nomenclature of music is perplexing and unsatiafactory,—a not unnatural result when one reflects how much of its terminology is borrowed......

Pigeon No. Rp/n-1908/4028.

[To nit EDITOR OF TUN "SFECTATOR."1 SIR,—By means of your considerate assistance the owner, residing in Glasgow, of pigeon RP/N-1906/4028 has written to claim his bird.—I am,......

Do Parrots Understand What They Talk About?

[To TDT EDITOR OF TEE SPECTATOR:9 Sra.,—My daughter's experience this last week would suggest that parrots do understand what is said to them. When feeding our bird he attacked......

Poetry.

JENNY JONES. (After The Welsh.) ONE morn from Llangollen's dim violet valley Light-hearted I clambered to Geer Dins Bran. O'er Cynwyd and Corwen I saw the sun sally, Ruabon's......

Rooks And Rookeries.

110 282 EDITOR Or SIMI/TAU/R.1 StE,.—You may think it worth while to place on record the following instance of the courage and pertinacity of rooks, and of the way in which, for......